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{{short description|16th-century English politician}}
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{{Infobox MP
 | honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]]
 | name        = Henry Sadler
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 | image       = Ralph Sadler Escutcheon.png
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 | alt         = 
 | caption     = Arms of Sadler (Sadleir): ''Or, a lion rampant, parted per fess, azure and gules, armed and langued, argent''
 | constituency_MP1 = [[Lancaster (UK Parliament constituency)|Lancaster]]
 | term_start1  = 1571
 | term_end1    = 1571 
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 | constituency_MP2 = <!-- [[lancaster (UK Parliament constituency)|Lancaster]] -->
 | term_start2  = 1572 
 | term_end2    = 1583 
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 | constituency_MP3 = <!-- [[Lancaster (UK Parliament constituency)|Lancaster]] -->
 | term_start3  = 1584 
 | term_end3    = 1585 
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 | constituency_MP4 = <!-- [[Lancaster (UK Parliament constituency)|Lancaster]] -->
 | term_start4  = 1586 
 | term_end4    = 1587 
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 | birth_date  = {{circa|1538}}
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 | death_date  = 17 March {{Death date and age|1618|1538}}  <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
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 | resting_place = [[:Commons:Category:St Lawrence's Church, Hungerford|Church of St Lawrence, Hungerford]]
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 | parents = {{Unbulleted list|[[Ralph Sadler|Sir Ralph Sadler]]|Ellen Mitchell}}
 | spouse  = {{Unbulleted list|Dorothy Gilbert|Ursula Gill}}
 | children = '''''with Dorothy:''''' {{Unbulleted list|Thomas Sadler|Gertrude Sadler|Dorothy Sadler|Grace Sadler|Ellen Sadler}}'''''with Ursula:''''' {{Unbulleted list|Francis Sadler|Joan Sadler}}
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'''Henry Sadler''' or '''Sadleir''' ({{circa|1538}} – 17 March 1618), of [[Everleigh, Wiltshire]] and [[Hungerford]], [[Berkshire]], was an English politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of England|House of Commons]] between 1571 and 1587. He was elected [[Member of parliament|MP]] for [[Lancaster (UK Parliament constituency)|Lancaster]] in 1571, 1572, 1584, 1586 and was [[High Sheriff of Wiltshire|Sheriff of Wiltshire]] in 1595-6.{{sfn|Cassidy|1981}}

Sadler was born about 1538, the third son of [[Ralph Sadler|Sir Ralph Sadler]] (1507 – 1587) of [[Hackney (parish)|Hackney]], [[Middlesex]] and [[Standon, Hertfordshire]] and Ellen Mitchell, daughter of John Mitchell of [[Much Hadham]], Hertfordshire and "widow" of Matthew Barre of [[Sevenoaks]], Kent.{{sfn|Coros|1982}}{{sfn|Phillips|2008}}

He was a student at [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]] in 1558.{{sfn|Cassidy|1981}}

He was Steward of [[Duchy of Lancaster]] lands in Wiltshire from 1570 to 1618, [[Hanaper#Clerk of the Hanaper|Clerk of the Hanaper]] from 1572 to 1604, constable of [[Leicester Castle]] in 1576, [[Justice of the peace]] in the [[Court of quarter sessions]] for Wiltshire in 1592 and [[High Sheriff of Wiltshire|Sheriff of Wiltshire]] in 1595-6.{{sfn|Cassidy|1981}}

Sadler entertained the [[James VI and I|King]] and [[Anne of Denmark|Queen]] at Everleigh on 31 August 1603.{{sfn|Cassidy|1981}}{{sfn|Nichols|1828|p=[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002004128022&view=1up&seq=317 255]}}

He married, firstly, Dorothy Gilbert, daughter of Edward Gilbert of [[Everleigh, Wiltshire]], by whom he had children, including:{{sfn|Blaydes|1884|p=[https://archive.org/stream/visitationsbedf00britgoog#page/n155/mode/2up 136]}}
* Thomas Sadler
* Gertrude Sadler
* Dorothy Sadler
* Grace Sadler
* Ellen Sadler

He married, secondly, Ursula Gill, daughter of John Gill of Widial, [[Hertfordshire]], by whom he had children, including:{{sfn|Cassidy|1981}}
* Francis Sadler
* Joan Sadler

Henry Sadler died on 17 March 1618, ten days after his eldest son, and was buried in [[:Commons:Category:St Lawrence's Church, Hungerford|Hungerford church]].{{sfn|Aubrey|Jackson|1862|p=[https://archive.org/details/wiltshiretopogra00aubr/page/364/mode/2up?view=theater 365]}} A life interest in the lands at Everley and Hungerford was bequeathed to his "well-beloved wife" Ursula, the sole executrix, with a reversion to the eldest surviving son of their marriage. His daughter Joan was left a farm and tenement in Middle Everley, three score ewes and their pasture, and £1,000. In a codicil, he arranged the disinheritance of his son Francis if he lived abroad or fell "into the Romish or Popish religion".{{sfn|Cassidy|1981}} He was succeeded by Francis Sadler.{{sfn|Baggs|Crittall|Freeman|Stevenson|1980|pp=[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol11/pp135-142 135–142]}}

==References==
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==Sources==
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*{{cite book |last1=Aubrey |first1=John |author-link=John Aubrey |last2=Jackson |first2=John Edward |year=1862 |title=Wiltshire: The Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, F. R. S., A. D. 1659–70, With Illustrations |others=Corrected and enlarged by John Edward Jackson |location=London |publisher=[[Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society]] |url=https://archive.org/stream/wiltshiretopogra00aubr#page/364/mode/2up}}
*{{cite book |last1=Baggs |first1=A. P. |last2=Crittall |first2=Elizabeth |last3=Freeman |first3=Jane |last4=Stevenson |first4=Janet H. |editor1-last=Crowley |editor1-first=D. A. |title=A History of the County of Wiltshire |volume=11: Downton Hundred; Elstub and Everleigh Hundred |date=1980 |publisher=[[Victoria County History]] |location=London |pages=135–142 |chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol11/pp135-142 |chapter=Parishes: Enford |via=[[British History Online]]}}
*{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Irene |editor1-last=Hasler |editor1-first=P. W. |title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 |date=1981 |via=The History of Parliament Online |chapter-url=http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/sadler-henry-1538-1618 |chapter=Sadler, Henry (c.1538-1618), of Everley, Wilts and Hungerford, Berks.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Clutterbuck |first1=Robert |author1-link=Robert Clutterbuck |title=The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford: Compiled from the Best Printed Authorities and Original Records Preserved in Public Repositories and Private Collections; Embellished with Views of the Most Curious Monuments of Antiquity and Illustrated with a Map of the County |volume=3 |date=1827 |publisher=Nichols and Bentley |location=London |oclc=62053799 |pages=28–29, 226–228}}
*{{cite book |last1=Coros |first1=D. F. |chapter=Sadler, Ralph (1507–87), of Hackney, Mdx., Standon, Herts. and Lesnes, Kent  |editor=Bindoff, S. T. |title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509–1558 |year=1982 |chapter-url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/sadler-ralph-1507-87 |via=The History of Parliament Online}}
*{{cite book|last1=Harvey |first1=William |author1-link=William Harvey (officer of arms) |last2=Cooke |first2=Robert |author2-link=Robert Cooke (officer of arms) |last3=Owen |first3=George |author3-link=George Owen (herald) |editor=Blaydes, Frederic Augustus |title=The Visitations of Bedfordshire, Annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634, Made by William Harvey Robert Cooke and George Owen As Deputy for Richard St. George: Together with Additional Pedigrees Chiefly from Harleian Ms. 1531; and an Appendix Containing a List of Pedigrees Entered at the Visitation of 1669; Also Lists of Bedfordshire Knights and Gentry Taken from Lasdowne Ms. 887 |year=1884 |series=The Publications of the Harleian Society |volume=29 |location=London |publisher=[[Harleian Society]] |url=https://archive.org/stream/visitationsbedf00britgoog#page/n155/mode/2up |page=136 |oclc=866625909 |ref={{sfnref|Blaydes|1884}}}}
*{{cite book |last1=Nichols |first1=John |author1-link=John Nichols (printer) |title=The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, His Royal Consort, Family, and Court |volume=1 |page=255 |date=1828 |publisher=[[John Bowyer Nichols|J. B. Nichols]] |location=London |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002004128022&view=1up&seq=317}}
*{{cite ODNB|last=Phillips |first=Gervase |title=Sadler, Sir Ralph (1507–1587) |date=January 2008 |orig-date=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/24462}}
*{{cite book |last1=Sadler |first1=Ralph |author1-link=Ralph Sadler |last2=Scott |first2=Walter |author2-link=Walter Scott |editor1-last=Clifford |editor1-first=Arthur |editor1-link=Arthur Clifford |title=The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler Knight Banneret. Edited by Arthur Clifford Esq. in Two Volumes. to Which Is Added a Memoir of the Life of Sir Ralph Sadler with Historical Notes by Walter Scott Esq.  |volume=2 |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Archibald Constable and Co. |url=https://archive.org/stream/statepapers02sadl#page/n9/mode/2up |year=1809 |ref={{sfnref|Clifford|1809}}}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Sadleir |first1=Thomas Ulick |author1-link=Thomas Sadleir |title=Sir Ralph Sadleir |url= |journal=Transactions of the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society |date=1905 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=79–99}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Slavin |first1=Arthur Joseph |title=Parliament and Henry VIII's Bigamous Principal Secretary |journal=Huntington Library Quarterly |date=1965 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=131–143 |doi=10.2307/3816802 |jstor=3816802}}
*{{cite book |last=Stoney |first=F. Sadleir |title=A Memoir of the Life and Times of the Right Honourable Sir Ralph Sadleir |year=1877 |location=London |publisher=Longmans, Green & Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924027961683/page/n261/mode/2up?view=theater |oclc=3930522 |pages=247–249}}
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